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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by jerrysievert on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:01PM (#41715249)
funnily enough, solaris 2 was also identifying as sunos 5 depending on what tool you used to query.

sun's pivot from bsd to at&t was a very nice and clean change (I was the one who ended up upgrading our sunos servers to solaris when the time came in the 90's), sequent's switch was a nightmare.

I still miss my e4500, though, but not the noise or electric bill.

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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by jerrysievert on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:27PM (#41716884)
adding: /usr/ucb - a very nice bone to throw.
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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by jasomill on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:12AM (#41719729)
solaris 2 was also identifying as sunos 5 depending on what tool you used to query.

Still true:

  $ uname -sr
  SunOS 5.11
Not entirely unlike Windows 11, a.k.a.

  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4169]
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Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video] by fredoralive on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:38AM (#41719925)
Not the first time for Windows, Windows 7 is v6.1 internally, then Windows 8 and 8.1 get 6.2 and 6.3[1]. Main explanation is basically "programmers suck at checking version numbers" so Microsoft tried to avoid bumping the major version. I guess they risked pushing the version number to 10 for the "last" version of Windows, but have fallen back to just not touching it now that a new generation of management have decided that it isn't the last version of Windows.

[1] Windows 95 also tells 16 bit apps that it's v3.95, but 32 bit apps get the correct 4.0.

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